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      • They also found that a broad range of negative emotions – stress, depression and sadness, shame and aggression, and anger – were associated with emotional eating and specifically binge eating. Additionally, they found that these negative emotions were more likely to lead to unhealthy food choices.
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  1. The negative impact of food insecurity on health and psychological well-being, such as despair, loss of happiness, marital conflict, and violence, highlights the importance of understanding the relationship between food and mental health.

  2. Feb 17, 2023 · Triggered by negative emotions, EEB may reflect the increased consumption of unhealthy foods and negative lifestyle habits with negative consequences on health outcomes.

  3. Emotional eating is characterized by the excessive consumption of hyperpalatable energy-dense foods, rich in sugars and fats, in response to negative emotions. But several reports also indicate that emotional eating may be associated with the presence of positive emotions, so further analysis of the available information is necessary.

  4. Dec 6, 2023 · Findings suggest that emotional eating is prone to unhealthier, taste-oriented food choices under negative emotions. Negative emotions tend to focus on short-term gratification at the expense of long-term health risk considerations.

  5. Emotional eating, or overeating in response to negative emotions, is a behavior endorsed by both normal weight and people with overweight/obesity. For some individuals, emotional eating contributes to weight gain and difficulties losing weight.

  6. While the results align with most previous studies in finding that increasing negative self-evaluative emotions is associated with a reduction in unhealthy food consumption, the interaction effect between increasing self-affirmation and stimulating negative self-evaluative emotions was not statistically significant.

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  8. Jul 10, 2023 · Stressful experiences frequently lead to increased consumption of unhealthy foods, high in sugar and fat yet low in nutrients. Can emotion regulation help break this link?

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